It is fair to say that Stoke City have taken a closer look at a lot of players over the past 20 years or so.

We have gone through the archives to pick out a few, perhaps the more obscure, to test how many you can still remember. Yes, it is that part of an international break.

We have put them in this list together with a selection of 1980s pop stars, Icelandic politicians and Hollywood villains. Now it’s over to you to see if you can find the wheat from the chaff or perhaps the chaff from the wheat, depending on how the trial went.

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None of these players was taken on as a permanent squad member by the likes of Lou Macari, Tony Pulis or Johan Boskamp but all was given their chance to make a mark, be it in reserve games, training or pre-season. Some went on to do all right for themselves while others faded into obscurity.